Teach Your Kids to Think is for today's busy, involved parents.

Want your child to develop the life-wide thinking skills taught in our very best private and public schools?

Want the time you spend to help your child for succeed now and as an adult?

Use the approach and simple questioning techniques shared in Teach Your Kids to Think.

A winner of the Kidlutions Preferred Product award, the book Teach Your Kids to Think: Simple Tools You Can Use Every Day is designed to help parents teach their children how to think wisely and well during the time they already spend together. Using the latest research on intelligence and how we think, author Maria Chesley Fisk, Ph.D., has created a series of easy-to-use, fun tools that can be used whenever parents are with their 4- to 12-year-old kids. The tools are divided into sections that correspond to different kinds of thinking: analytical, creative, social & emotional, and practical. She created her thinking puzzle, used throughout the book, to represent how interrelated these thinking skills are and how they all work together to help our kids develop their multiple intelligences. Available on Kindle, too!

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Praise for the Book from Learning Experts:

The main criterion by which a child's learning will be judged in this century is not how much information has been memorized, but how well he or she can apply thinking skills to the challenges they face in their work and daily lives. This book is a basic primer for developing these skills and should be in every home and classroom where people care about the future of learning.

-Joseph S. Renzulli, Ph.D., Founder of Renzulli Learning Systems
Winner of the 2009 Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education
Author of Light Up Your Child's Mind

Teach Your Kids to Think! translates current research in a way that parents can understand and immediately use. Neuroscience indicates that we have multiple intelligences - this book gives parents tools that transform this understanding into actionable nuggets.

-Judy Willis, M.D., M.Ed., neurologist, teacher, and author of
How Your Child Learns Best

This book addresses the critical need to educate the whole child that is too often lost in education today. I wholeheartedly recommend it to parents, professional educators, and anyone who is interested in practical ideas about how to expand children's abilities to function intellectually, socially, and emotionally in today's world.

-Karen K. Wixson, Ph.D., Professor and former Dean
School of Education, University of Michigan

Teach Your Kids to Think! is a great resource for parents and teachers who want to teach the thinking skills so necessary in the 21st century, but aren't sure what they are and how to teach them. As an added benefit, adults who teach thinking skills to children hone their own thinking skills, giving them the tools to survive and thrive in our increasingly complex world!

-Jacquelyn Drummer, M.S. and Past President,
Wisconsin Association for Talented and Gifted

In order to learn to think effectively, I believe that children need two teaching tools. One tool is loving parents who want to see their children become proficient in thinking because they know how important it is. The other teaching tool includes nothing more than purposeful, valid and easy-to-use teaching kits. These kits must also be joyful to use and show results. Teach Your Kids to Think! is the kind of tool I described above. It is presented in a simple and tasteful way. Based on what we know about school principals' observations regarding parental involvement in education, I dare to predict that the use of Dr. Fisk's guidelines published in this book will bring excellent results.

-Naftaly ("Tuli") Glasman, Ph.D.,Professor of Educational Leadership, University of California Santa Barbara

This is a must-have book for any parent who wants to give their children important skills that will help them think for themselves - skills that will pave the way to successfully meet the challenges they will face throughout their lives.

-Myrna B. Shure, Ph.D., Author of Raising a Thinking Child,
Raising a Thinking Preteen, and Thinking Parent, Thinking Child

This book is a valuable tool for bridging the work of parents and professional educators. It can serve as a common point of reference for parents and teachers as they think about positive strategies and interventions for children.

-Tim Gavigan, Ph.D., Executive Director,
Cooperative Education Service Agency #1